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What 20 Years of Marriage Has Taught Me
The hubbers and I celebrated 20 years of wedded bliss yesterday.
Okay, that’s not entirely true. While it’s been 20 beautiful years, it hasn’t been all bliss.
Like every married couple, along with the bliss, there’s been some blunders, bloopers, and, well, just plain brokenness (because that’s what marriage is: two flawed people coming together.)
Along with gathering ...
A Good Man: A Tribute to my Dad on his 80th Birthday
I remember crafting you a "poem" when I was eleven years old. It was your 45th birthday and I wrote this for you:
Born in ‘45
Today 45,
Half of 90
In the Year ‘90
You thought my poem was next-level brilliant. Like, Nobel Literature Prize worthy. Like, Shakespeare should be taking notes.
Thirty-five years later, you’re still the biggest cheerleader of ...
Holy Huddles in the Messy Mundane
I rummage through the snack drawer and pull out a happy assortment of goodies: Hide & Seek cookies, Medjool dates, salted makhana, and some woefully ignored packets of channa dal. Feeling slightly guilty about all the processed snacks, I throw some mandarin oranges into the mix. I deposit the items on the dining table along with three ...
How Can I Be Free From Fear?
Growing up, I attended a strict Catholic school in South India. For 12 years, I wore a school uniform of the prescribed length, socks that were modestly high enough to pass inspection, and startlingly bright white canvas shoes.
My whole modus operandi in school was pretty simple. It wasn’t to get good grades. It wasn’t to ...
When Obedience Looks Like a Big Transition
Ten years ago, if you’d asked me whether I could survive without my weekly trifecta of Target, Trader Joe’s, and Totally Pointless Shopping, I would have protested with a “No way!” and clutched my shopping cart tighter than ever.
But a lot has changed since then.
Ten years ago, we were immigrants in the US. By all ...
Bible Plan: Finding Rest in a Busy World
To continue our June series on Bible Plans, this week we're focusing on the theme of rest.
There’s no getting around the fact that we live in an always-spinning world. We yearn for quietness in our souls – but, often, that deep rest seems out of our reach. Or is it? In the next few days, ...
What’s Your Default?
Ask my kids where they typically find me, and they’ll likely say, on the recliner couch in our family room. They would be right. (That comfy leather recliner is hands down one of the best purchases we’ve made.) Ask them what they’ll find me doing and they’ll probably say, scrolling on my phone (on the ...
The Three R’s of Parenting
You’ve probably heard of the three R’s of education: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Those three pillars form the foundation of academics for any student. But what about the three R’s which form the fundamentals of parenting?
As a mama of two teens, I don’t claim to share these three R’s from a place of having “nailed ...
Christmas: The Divine Disruption Part 2
This Christmas, we’re doing a three-part series called “Christmas: The Divine Disruption.”
What is Christmas really about? Yes, we celebrate the birth of the new-born King. But what is the true significance of His birth?
Last week, we dived into Part 1 of the series with the principle: Christmas is God intervening in our story of rebellion.
Today ...
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